By CARLOS H. CONDE
A disaster-prone country like the Philippines should by now be a nation of experts on calamities and how to deal with them. But, as Ondoy has shown, Filipinos are almost always caught unawares. And often, the high cost of these calamities are caused not so much by lack of knowledge or resources as by poor governance.
MANILA -- Tropical storm Ondoy could cause lasting poverty and severe difficulties for at least 206,000 families in the National Capital Region (NCR), Central Luzon and Calabarzon regions, research group Ibon Foundation said Friday. Even as the government downplays...
MANILA -- Research group ibon Foundation asked on Friday how aid for disaster relief given by donor governments was spent by the Arroyo government, in the face of the administration’s apparent lack of disaster preparedness and response when tropical storm Ondoy hit...
By NERVE MACASPAC Bulatlat.com The total number of fatalities from tropical storm “Ondoy" (international name: Ketsana) that submerged some areas in Central Luzon and Calabarzon in mud and water may already be close to 200. The National Disaster Coordinating...
Ni GERRY ANDAMO Inilathala ng (Bulatlat.com) Ang sugat ay maghihilom na pilat Ang pilat ay gumagaling na sugat. Ang pilat ay nangangahulugang minsa’y may sugat Ang sugat ay nagbabadyang sa hinaharap ay may pilat. Makirot, mahapdi ang sariwang sugat Ang pilat ay...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point/Business World Posted by (Bulatlat.com) In much of the conflict-wracked areas of the world, it's the women who're keeping things together despite civil war, ethnic cleansing, terrorism, and the other ills failing and failed states...
By SAM FERGUSON Truthout/Perspective International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Buenos Aires, Argentina - On September 3, 2009, three aging, retired officials from Argentina's army entered a federal courthouse in Rosario, Argentina. The men - Pascual Guerrieri, Jorge...
By BENJAMIN DANGL Counterpunch International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Richard Gillman, the former CEO of Chicago’s Republic Windows and Doors factory where over 200 workers organized a victorious sit-in last year, has been sent to jail on eight charges including...
By HENRY GIROUX Truthout/Perspective International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) C. Wright Mills argued 50 years ago that one important measure of the demise of vibrant democracy and the corresponding impoverishment of political life can be found in the increasing...
By ZOFIA LEAL
Another mother has gone to a place she had never been to find her missing son. Wilma Rodriguez has just started her long journey. Nagtatapang-tapangan lang ako. Hindi talaga ako matapang. Pero kapag hindi ka lumaban, hindi rin titigil ang mga yan,” (I just try to be a fighter. I am not really a fighter. Because if you don’t fight, they would not stop.) she said.
By JOAN GARCIA Bulatlat.com Agoo, LA UNION -- Manong George has been a fisherman all his life. Fishing is not just his primary source of income but also his family’s source of food. Despite the natural dangers of fishing, fisherfolks also have to contend with the...
By ZOFIA LEAL Culture Bulatlat.com According to Vincent Tañada, lawyer, librettist and director of the stage musical “Ako si Ninoy”, the core message of the production is the “selfless giving of oneself for our countrymen and women for the advancement of our...
By REBECCA SOLNIT TomDispatch.com International Posted by Bulatlat.com Eight years ago, 2,600 people lost their lives in Manhattan, and then several million people lost their story. The al-Qaeda attack on the Twin Towers did not defeat New Yorkers. It destroyed the...
By TONY PUGH International Truthout Posted by Bulatlat.com Washington -- The early impact of the worst recession since the 1930s pushed median incomes down, forced millions more people into poverty and left more Americans without health care in 2008, according to...
By SETH SANDRONSKY International Truthout Posted by Bulatlat.com Severe spending cuts are battering the California State University system. Furlough days for professors. Double-digit fee increases for students. They are seeking relief. Patricia Mata is a senior...
By RAY MCGOVERN truthout International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) I'm going to ask for my money back. I've seen this Afghanistan movie before. The first time, Vietnam was in the title. As in an early scene from the Vietnam version, U.S. military officials are...
By SITTIE SUNDANG Bulatlat.com DATU PIANG, Maguindanao- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) or “bakwits” have chosen to stay at the evacuation centers despite declarations of a suspension of offensive military operations (Somo) and a suspension of military actions...
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